LNK 1104 cannot open file 'dformd.lib'

[mitra_anish]

I am using abaqus 6.5 and want to run my c++ scripts. I have Visual C++ 6.0 installed but do not have any Fortran compiler.

When I try to compile my c++ script, using "abaqus make" command it is giving the above error (LNK 1104).

Do I need to install Fortran also...even though I do not have any fortran files to run?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

You're linking against some library that was written in Fortran and built for use with Digital/Compaq Visual Fortran. You can try, as an experiment, adding dformd.lib to the "ignore library" list on the Linker settings tab, but you'll probably end up with a bunch of undefined references.

Check the Abaqus system requirements to see what they say.

[mitra_anish]

Yes, I tried to remove the dformd.lib file from the environment files of abaqus, and it has given some other linker errors.

Thanks for your help though.

Do you knowif I could download a trial version of Intel Fortran Compiler 7.0 or 8.0

Thanks a lot

Anish

[TimP]

If you have a license for ifort, and open a support account on premier.intel.com, you can download older versions. ifort 7.1 did have an option to run within the Visual Studio supplied by later version of CVF.
As mentioned previously, it doesn't make sense for us to offer advice on how to attempt to use Abaqus in an unsupported way.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Even if you had ifort 7.1 or 8.0, you would still need CVF in order to link with that version of Abaqus. You should be able to get a version of Abaqus to work with the current Intel Visual Fortran version.